D'Aleo was the first Director of Meteorology at the cable TV Weather Channel and was ex-Chief Meteorologist at Weather Services International Corporation and Senior Editor of “Dr. Dewpoint” for WSI’s Intellicast.com web site.

Stance on Climate Change

“Sunspot cycles and their effects on oceans correlate with climate changes. Studying these and other factors suggests that a cold, not warm, climate may be in our future.” [2]

Key Quotes

“[The IPCC's] models treat the oceans as distilled water when in reality they are an infinite buffer for atmospheric CO2. Burning all the earth’s fossil fuels would amount to no more than a 20 percent increase. It could never double(2). In any event, ice cores tell us carbon dioxide lags, not leads, the temperatures by as much as 800 years.” [3]

Key Deeds

Ongoing

D'Aleo has appeared in numerous television interviews, including this one[9] conducted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI[10]) in 2008:

March, 2015

Joseph D'Aleo is one of several climate change skeptics cc'd on an email from S. Fred Singer[11] in hopes of countering the documentary film “Merchants of Doubt,” which exposes the network of climate change skeptics and deniers trying to delay legislative action on climate change.

The October, 2014 email was leaked to journalists before the documentary was released. “Can I sue for damages?” Singer asked in the email. “Can we get an injunction against the documentary?”

InsideClimate News reports in their article “Leaked Email Reveals Who's Who List of Climate Denialists[12],” how “Many of those copied on the email thread, such as Singer and communications specialist Steven Milloy, have financial ties to the tobacco, chemical, and oil and gas industries and have worked to defend them since the 1990s.” [14]

InsideClimate News also documented all those who were cc'd on the email, including the following skeptics and groups:

Together, they claim to have discovered “manipulation of the temperature data by the U.S. government’s two primary climate centers: the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City.” [5]

D'Aleo's signature is displayed[48] alongside a full-page ad funded by the CATO institute[49] that appeared[50] in numerous newspapers including the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune in 2009.

The advertisement responds to President Obama's declaration that “few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear” by saying that “with all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.” It goes on to describe how “there has been no net global warming for over a decade,” and how global warming is “grossly overstated.” [6]

February 5, 2007

Co-authored the Fraser Institute's Independent Summary For Policymakers[51] which criticized the Independent Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC's own Summary For Policymakers was released shortly before the Fraser Institute document (PDF[52]).

March, 2008

Speaker [41]at the Heartland Institute's First International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC1). [4]

His speech was titled “Solar Irradiance and Oceans are the True Drivers of Climate Change.”

According to a search of WorldCat[62], Energy & Environment is carried in only 25 libraries worldwide. The journal is not included in Journal Citation Reports[63], which lists the impact factors for the top 6000 peer-reviewed journals.

ICECAP mentions that D'Aleo has written a number of papers as well as published a book on “advanced applications enabled by new technologies and how research into ENSO and other atmospheric and oceanic phenomena has made skillful seasonal forecasts possible.”